Flash starts vanishing, even from porn sites

Mozilla and Google had already announced that they will kill support to Flash on their browsers, Firefox and Chrome, respectively. Researchers have said that Flash is harmful for online safety and makes the users vulnerable to cyber attacks. Now it seems that even porn websites have started to di

Mozilla and Google had already announced that they will kill support to Flash on their browsers, Firefox and Chrome, respectively. Researchers have said that Flash is harmful for online safety and makes the users vulnerable to cyber attacks. Now it seems that even porn websites have started to ditch the aging software and have started opting for HTML5, the newest version of web language that offers wider support for multimedia content.

A leading porn website, Pornhub, recently said that it would be ending support to Flash and will soon shift to HTML5. It's to be noted that another porn site, Brazzers, had recently came under a hack attack which leaked about 800,000 accounts on a forum.

"It was just a matter of time until we switched, as HTML5 is becoming the standard across platforms. Now makes the most sense as Google and Firefox are slowly pushing Flash support out of their browsers. Plus HTML5 has improved security, better power consumption and it's faster to load," Corey Price, vice president of Pornhub, told Motherboard in an email.

After the Brazzers hack, technology website Motherboard was provided the data by breach monitoring website Vigilante.pw for verification. It revealed 790,724 unique email addresses, and also usernames and passwords in plaintext.

Other porn sites that still deliver video content to user over Flash are xHamster, YouPorn and RedTube.

Adobe started patching these security vulnerabilities in Flash in June. Later in July, the company had fixed about 52 security issues in Flash.

The anti-Flash process is already on the way as most video-streaming websites have not updated and when run on either of the browsers show a "This plugin is vulnerable and should be updated" message".

The message gives an options to "Activate Adobe Flash" and also to "Check for updates". While most users go for Activating flash option, it is unwise and extremely risky, since it runs the older and vulnerable version of Flash on the website.

If you plan to watch videos on your browser and the site shows the said messages, don't hesitate to click on "Check for updates". Else it could be your name out there when another porn site gets hacked. Better be safe than sorry.

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